I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions for its use in a reprint of a c.1930
Singer Featherweight manual.
Ann,
I have a pleater foot that came with my 1897 machine. Many early
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At 17:13 18/05/2008, you wrote:
I've got a pleater foot, and very
Thank you so much, Laura,
Yes, I mean the ruffler foot. Mine is a very close cousin to your first link,
which I left quoted below.
It makes its ruffles is by making a little pleat, every stitch, or every 6 or
12 stitches, depending on how it's set. modern ruffler foot:
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions for its use in a reprint of a c.1930 Singer
Featherweight manual.
Ann in CT
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At 17:13 18/05/2008, you wrote:
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions for its use in a reprint of a
c.1930 Singer Featherweight manual.
Ann in CT
As mechanical pleating machines
Never mind the 1870's.how about the 1500's
*shudders*
and I'll probably do it again...
Brangwyne
At 17:13 18/05/2008, you wrote:
I've got a pleater foot, and very useful it is.
Does anyone know where I might find out how early pleater feet are?
The earliest I've got is directions
